Personality Slices: What Happened After Yun Shou

It just so happened that the dandy had paid your bill that day, so you returned the peach with a plum and revived a fragment of his dear old father.

Unfortunately, Light Dust Source Soup had no underworld reincarnation. This spirit realm could not be considered hell or some Pool of Rebirth either; at best, it was a place where souls were preserved.

Moreover, the dandy's father's true physical body—his true soul—had already dissipated several days ago. What remained now was merely an "emotion," or rather, an obsession, a will.

It was only an extremely tiny slice of a person, much like one version of Pretty Goat. She possessed her own personality and displayed different behaviors under different circumstances. She could get angry, and she could laugh.

Such slices were equivalent to "Pretty Goat in front of Boiling Goat (the internet stereotype version)," "Pretty Goat in front of Happy Goat (the same stereotype version)," and "Pretty Goat carefully dressing herself up."

The first stereotypical Pretty Goat would frown and berate Happy Goat even in front of him, because that slice contained no emotion called "liking," nor any vocabulary related to praise.

"But surely she wouldn't curse Boiling Goat that viciously."

Likewise, the other versions of the slices were the same. Their vocabularies, memories, and even emotions were fixed rigidly in place. They could never change like living people, because they were not living beings in the first place—merely a surge of emotion.

Still, having a slice of one's father for company was better than being told that he was dead beyond all hope.

You injected that emotion with enough spiritual power to sustain its existence, then sealed it into a pendant. Through a crow flying in from the south—the direction where his father had fallen in battle—you had the pendant